The following keynote speech given by former finance minister and Gua Musang parliamentarian Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah at the 4th Annual Malaysian.
Tengku Razaleigh also said that a good leader must be an ethical person with high integrity, who is honest and sincere..
— Courtesy of Tunku Sofiah Jewa
From AllMalaysia.info, 27 August 2007
He was portrayed as being anti-Malay in the aftermath of May 13 and his name sullied. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
By TENGKU RAZALEIGH HAMZAH
LONG before I was even born, my father Tengku Mohamed Hamzah, the Menteri Besar of Kelantan, had been close to the royal family of Kedah.
In the late 1950s, my father used to call on Ayah (Tunku Abdul Rahman) at The Residency whenever he was in Kuala Lumpur to attend the Rulers’ Conference.
As for me, I met Ayah regularly while studying economics at Queen’s University in Belfast, when I was also Secretary-General of the Malay Society of United Kingdom.
In February 1962, when I was in my final year reading law at Lincoln's Inn, my father had a fatal stroke, thus forcing